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brennan.daySep 23, 2026

Static Site Generators for Beginners

Written for a 32-bit Café thread asking where to even begin with static-site generators. I go over the free resources I'd learn first (and why hand-rolled HTML beats an SSG for your very first site), a plain-language glossary of the jargon docs never define, a brief history from HSC and Movable Type to Jekyll, why git gets recommended everywhere, my own beginner starters, and tiny alternatives like barf, bashblog, and kiki.

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brennan.daySep 8, 2026

More Mindful Web Development

Yet another technical audit of brennan.day, this time using the Safi Studio Scanner, covering fixes for duplicate <h1> headings, meta descriptions, image dimensions, JSON-LD organization data, render-blocking scripts, and a switch from IndieAuth to IndieLogin—plus what I left alone.

Adam DJ Brett's blogSep 5, 2026

A Summer of Plumbing: JCRT, KC Works, and the Build Awesome Builds

What changed under the hood at jcrt.org this summer: 829 DOIs through KC Works, a faster and quieter Eleventy build, and the Editorial-style sidebar I finally got right.

SimonCox.comAug 23, 2026

Reworking Drafts in 11ty

I changed the way I process draft posts in my 11ty setup.

brennan.dayAug 16, 2026

Advanced Webweaving: Auditing Against Specification.Website

I ran brennan.day against The Website Specification's 140-item checklist covering foundations, SEO, accessibility, security, performance, privacy, and resilience. Notes on a broken web manifest I'd never noticed, why I don't have cookie consent banners, CSP debugging with third-party services, service worker CORS issues, a bunch of small improvements, and the list of things I didn't fix.

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SimonCox.comJul 26, 2026

Filtered Topic Supplementary Posts

In a bout of inspiration this week I changed some of the framework on this site with unexpected results.

Brennan Kenneth Brown ♾️Jul 24, 2026

Creating a Digital Garden in 11ty: Tracking My Daily Word Count with URLminder

I decided to build brennan.click, a wiki-linked digital commonplace book in Eleventy, with auto-generated stubs created with eleventy-plugin-interlinker, pure-CSS hover transclusion and footnotes with no JavaScript, and a plain-text /urlminder.txt feed that drives a Beeminder goal.

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HILARY BAUMANN

HILARY BAUMANNJul 23, 2026

What is Standard.Site? Next gen RSS

Think of this a bit like: advanced RSS where publishers can see number of subscribers a way to subscribe without cluttering your email inbox and also find the blogs of the people you already follow online. The subscriptions are tied to your Atmosphere account (your Bluesky account.) a schema or lexicon for those technically inclined...

brennan.dayJul 16, 2026

300 Minutes a Month: Cutting My Eleventy Netlify Build Time in Half

A sequel to my Eleventy build post: this time the bottleneck wasn't the build tool, it was the hosting bill. Notes on caching webmentions and guestbook fetches, killing a dead Discord webhook, nearly breaking my JSON feed, and a git error I still don't have an answer for.

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brennan.dayJul 6, 2026

Publishing My Eleventy Blog to the ATmosphere with Standard.site

A walkthrough of how I wired up Standard.site AT Protocol lexicons into this 11ty blog: from writing a custom publish script to migrating to Sequoia, with code for the link tags, and handle verification.

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Adam DJ Brett's blogJul 6, 2026

How to Implement status.lol on BuildAwesome

A practical guide to publishing new Eleventy blog posts to status.lol with GitHub Actions, the omg.lol API, and a small durable state file.

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Adam DJ Brett's blogJul 5, 2026

Making Static Sites FAIR with metadata.json, Zotero, Eleventy, and Jekyll

A detailed implementation note on adding FAIR Signposting, per-page Schema.org metadata.json files, Zotero metadata, and citation automation across Eleventy and Jekyll sites.

Adam DJ Brett's blogJun 25, 2026

Making Blogs Easier to Cite with Zotero

What I learned from implementing Zotero-friendly metadata across adamdjbrett.com, JCRT, The New Polis, Esthesis, and The Whitestone Foundation.

brennan.dayJun 20, 2026

How Webmentions Work on brennan.day

A tutorial and walkthrough of how I implemented webmentions on my site, from setup to display, including webmention.io integration, Eleventy filters, CSS styling, and Bridgy for sending.

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twinbfieldJun 2, 2026

How to start a blog

GitHub Pagesnetflix.github.io

Den McHenryMay 30, 2026

My quirky IndieAuth server

Aaron Parecki's indieauth dot comAn IndieWeb Webring

Home - twinbfieldMay 24, 2026

How to start a blog

I'm starting a webring, so I'm sharing instructions for my friends to get started.

GitHub Pagesnetflix.github.io

brennan.dayMay 15, 2026

Cleaning House: Refactoring My Eleventy Config Into Modules

How I decomposed an 866-line .eleventy.js monolith into four focused modules, fixed some lurking bugs, and eliminated dead CSS and dead dependencies along the way.

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brennan.dayMay 11, 2026

I Made My Eleventy Build 5× Faster with Five Changes

A walkthrough of how I audited my 11ty build benchmarks and cut cold-start time from 14 seconds down to 2.6 seconds by caching two custom filters and swapping out a bare network fetch.

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The Fulcrum, too

The Fulcrum, tooApr 26, 2026

The Programmer’s Fulcrum: 24 April, 2026

This post originally appeared on The Fulcrum. Welcome to this week's The Programmer's Fulcrum. It's your weekly curation of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Fediverse development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism. We aim to provide actionable content you can use to destroy Techno Feudalism each...

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brennan.dayMar 13, 2026

Building brennan.day Part Two: IndieWeb, New Features, and Three Months of Iterations

What have I added to my site since I started in December? Quality-of-life improvements, new pages, interesting features, and of course, easter eggs! When you add a little each day, it really adds up.

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Brennan Kenneth Brown ♾️Mar 6, 2026

Build Awesome's Kickstarter is Cancelled

After only a couple days, Build Awesome's Kickstarter has been cancelled and rescheduled due to email delivery issues that ruined the project's momentum despite reaching their funding goal in a single day.

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brennan.dayMar 6, 2026

Build Awesome's Kickstarter is Cancelled

After only a couple days, Build Awesome's Kickstarter has been cancelled and rescheduled due to email delivery issues that ruined the project's momentum despite reaching their funding goal in a single day.

EleventyStatic Site Generators

brennan.dayMar 4, 2026

The End of Eleventy

Build Awesome is a rebrand of 11ty/Eleventy, backed by a successful $40k Kickstarter. But this attempt to monetize static site generators repeats the same mistakes that killed Gatsby and Stackbit—and misunderstands who actually builds static sites.

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